Leona Maguire suffers defeat in Match-Play semi-final

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THAILAND’S PAJAREE Anannarukarn and Japan’s Ayaka Furue advanced to the LPGA Match-Play championship final with morning semi-final triumphs on Sunday.

World number 97 Pajaree, 5-1 overall this week, and 18th-ranked Furue, unbeaten in six matches, will meet for the title on Sunday afternoon.Furue, who lost 3&2 to South Korea’s Ji Eun-hee in last year’s final, is an eight-time Japan Tour winner who took her only LPGA title at last year’s Women’s Scottish Open.

A day after her 23rd birthday, Furue won the 12th with a par and took the par-4 15th with a bogey to go 2-up with three to play and tied the par-5 16th and par-3 17th with pars to complete the victory.

 

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